Malone: An open letter to all women as court takes up issue

12:37 PM,
Apr. 4, 2014

Written by

Susan Malone
Dallas, Texas

As the Supreme Court deliberates if corporations, based on religious beliefs, should be allowed to prohibit insurance companies from covering any form of contraceptives to their female employees, it makes me wonder just how far we have actually come over the past 50 years.

With all the gains women have made over the decades, there are still those who firmly believe that it is acceptable to pay female workers in our country 30 percent less than their counterpart, regardless of equal qualifications and experience. There are also many who are attacking the right of "choice" and have limited our ...